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Contract Quality Assurance Engineer

Ready to change healthcare?

Sermo, the largest and fastest growing online physician-only community, is leading a movement to fundamentally change healthcare in America. Combining current technology, financial strength, and thousands of dedicated physicians, we aim to radically improve healthcare — for patients, doctors, and the industry as a whole.

We do this by freeing up the most important medical information on the planet — the knowledge living in the minds of physicians. Sermo amplifies physicians’ voices as they share their insights, building on each other’s knowledge while empowering government, industry, investors, research groups, and others to learn and adapt from this rich base of living experience in real-time.

From design and engineering to sales and finance, our people are among the best in their fields. Do you think you have what it takes to help drive this kind of monumental change? After all, it takes a lot of brilliant minds to tackle a goal this colossal — which is why we’d like to know more about yours.

Contract Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities

• Be an equal partner with the development team throughout the entire SDLC to assure functional integrity.
• Write and maintain test plans and test cases based on reviews of functional specifications.
• Coordinate, develop and execute test cases.
• Identify and report defects with reproducible steps, and manage defect tracking and defect reports.
• Work closely with engineering and management to prioritize defects, assist in the timely resolution of defects and verify defect fixes.
• Work directly with engineers and project management to obtain product information.
• Work with engineers to define the scope and coverage of the test effort.
• Create and maintain test data sets using internally-developed tools.
• Review technical documentation (user manuals, release notes, readmes) to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency, and adherence to standards for quality, graphics, coverage, format and style.
• Communicate QE project status and escalate blocking issues to management.
• Provide feedback for improving QE procedures, standards and methodologies.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years experience as a QA Engineer in a web-based software development environment.
• Experience with manual testing and some automation experience (preferably Java or Perl).
• Experience using functional and automation testing tools; QuickTest Pro is preferred.
• Experience with defect tracking systems and source control applications.
• Experience with Linux environments and relational databases; MySQL is preferred.
• Experience with web servers, and testing web applications.
• Ability to program basic automation tasks using Shell, Perl scripts or other scripting mechanisms.
• Experience testing new software products with limited product documentation.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to independently and quickly learn complex material.
• Willingness to participate in an iterative development process.
• Comfortable working under tight deadlines, with minimal supervision, to deliver high-quality products.
• Flexibility and experience working in a startup environment.
• Team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
• BS Degree in CS or equivalent.

So, why join Sermo?

You’ll want to join the team at Sermo for the chance to up your skills on a mission that is as far-reaching as you can imagine — you may be great at what you do, but together we can accomplish so much more.

To tell us about yourself and find out if you have what it takes to make Sermo great. Just email working@sermo.com

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